Data Services Librarian, Middlebury College, (Middlebury, VT)

Posted October 5, 2023

The Data Services Librarian leads the library’s efforts to support digital scholarship and data science research and teaching. They lead the management and use of the Federal Depository documents collection. They act as a library liaison, teach information literacy skills, provide outreach, and build relationships with students, faculty, and staff, contributing knowledge and creativity to the library, the college, and the profession.

This is a full time, benefits eligible, salaried position with a hiring range of $60,954 – $76,207 annually.

Core Responsibilities:

Develop strong working relationships with faculty, staff, and students who use (or support the use of) quantitative and qualitative data in their research, teaching, and scholarship.
Provide expert instruction to students, faculty, and staff regarding the discovery, acquisition, management, manipulation, interpretation, analysis, and visualization of data (e.g. infographics, charts, maps, and interactive media) using specialty software and coding languages (e.g. R, Python, Stata, ArcGIS, QGIS); provide expert instruction in specialized methods (e.g. statistical techniques, text/data mining, sentiment analysis, network analysis, GIS).
Provide proactive leadership, direction, and vision for the support of digital scholarship and data science research and teaching in the libraries; collaborate with faculty and staff from all Middlebury campuses.
Lead the collection, management, and use of internal library data and the Federal Depository documents collection; create analyses, visualizations, and reports using internal data sources, and regional, national, and international data sources; support of assessment, collection management, research and instruction, and user experience research; advise other library staff on these practices.
Build relationships with students, faculty, and staff by providing discipline-specific research advice, proactively communicating about relevant resources, and making decisions about library collections and spaces that are informed by curricular needs.
Teach research and information literacy skills in the classroom and in one-on-one meetings, modeling best practices from instructional design and the science of learning.
Develop web guides and other learning and outreach materials that highlight library resources and exhibit universal design principles for accessibility.
Contribute knowledge and creativity to the library, the college, and the profession by supporting principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, working cooperatively, participating in campus initiatives, and engaging in scholarly and professional service activities.

How to Apply

For more information and to apply, please go to the following: https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/7B3068308E/